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  • Inside Job?

    Everyday there seems to be more scary news or conspiracies floating around. A few posts ago, I wrote that international security experts said the insurrection had law enforcement help because certain standard security measures for when protests are known beforehand were not implemented. Someone made a conscious effort to “stand down”. Now, there are news…

  • BLM vs MAGA

    As best as I can tell: BLM The grievance: the police brutality as exposed by the George Floyd video. There were lootings and property destruction. Black leadership decried the looting and destruction and said that violence is not the answer. Protests need to be peaceful. Most protests were peaceful; there were videos showing that some…

  • America, we got a problem

    So, there are some stuff that concerns me about last week’s insurrection. First, the riot was apparently worse than initially thought or reported. In the last few days I’ve seen reports that said that Mike Pence’s and Nancy Pelosi’s lives may have been in danger. Mike Pence is a Trumplican! and have served the president…

  • Today is a sad day – the Republican voters have begun the violence

    I was going to write about something else but today is not the day. I need to acknowledge something else: the protests and violence that occurred in Washington D.C. The violence has finally happened today. How far it will go or whether it will continue, I don’t know but it is worth repeating an analogy…

  • Goodbye 2020

    We’ve finally reached the end of this momentous year. I’ve seen a lot of images with the “goodbye 2020” sentiment this year – and very little, or maybe no Happy New Year. Saying “Happy New Year” seems wrong since we still have a raging pandemic that is supposed to get worse in January, as if…